The new Section 232 order sets minimum prices for polysilicon and solar components, but it looks like a test-run for the critical minerals deal Washington has been chasing since January.
Category: Americas
Posted inTrade Policy
China answers Washington with drone curbs, sanctions on labor-audit firms
Beijing’s four-part package targets the firms that make US import enforcement work, and opens the first national security investigation in the history of China’s foreign trade law.
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US drops Scotch whisky tariffs to zero under UK trade deal
The US has eliminated tariffs on whisky from the UK with effect from July 24, restoring duty-free access to the Scotch industry’s largest export market under the agreement reached during the King’s state visit to Washington in April.
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Canada and UAE conclude trade pact talks eight months after launch
Canada and the United Arab Emirates have concluded negotiations on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement, closing out in roughly eight months what Ottawa described as among the fastest trade negotiations it has ever completed.
Posted inAmericas
Brasília answers Washington as 25% tariffs take effect
Brazil’s rebuttal disputes every part of the Section 301 finding, but its stated remedies run through a dispute system that cannot deliver. Brazil has published a heading-by-heading rebuttal of the United States case against it and begun preparing countermeasures, after Washington imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Brazilian goods at the close of a year-long […]
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Trump revives 1930 tariff law in strike on Canadian goods
Canada’s most senior trade officials briefed business and labour leaders in Ottawa this week on Washington’s decision to invoke a tariff power that has lain unused since the 1940s, opening a new front in a dispute that has already outlasted the North American trade pact’s renewal deadline.
Posted inLatin America, Trade Policy, United States
US threatens 25% tariffs on Brazil over digital, ethanol disputes
The United States on Monday proposed imposing 25 per cent tariffs on most imports from Brazil, escalating a year-long trade probe into Latin America’s largest economy while sparing two of its most valuable exports to the American market.
Posted inAmericas, SEA and Regions
Paraguay Seeks Above-Bound TRQ on Beef Under Proclamation 11010 Framework
Asuncion presses for expanded quota access, testing the administrative flexibility of an existing tariff-rate quota proclamation.
Posted inAmericas, SEA and Regions
USMCA Rapid Response Petition Filed at Third Auto Parts Facility in Coahuila
A new labour rapid-response matter extends a pattern in the auto parts sector, with remediation timelines now the operative question.